Dave Johns is realistically moving as the eponymous 59-year-old joiner who, having worked hard all his life and nursed his dying wife, suffers a heart attack.

His doctor tells him he is unfit for work. A bureaucratic by- the-book local job centre assessor (“I’m a healthcare professional") thinks otherwise. And Johns is refused State Aid and instructed to find work or face the “Decision Maker”, apparently a fate worse than death.